Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York,… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other.… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could… — Otto Rehhagel Copy Share Image
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.”… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear,… — Mendelssohn Felix Copy Share Image
